Local · Service at Niketown is lacking [Gotham Gal] · At the Duane Reade on E 51st Street, employees don’t know how to spell [Consumerist] National · Hello magazine now has its own online boutique [Fashionista] · People now hiring coaches to help them garden [NY Times] ·…

I’d guess at someone whose first language isn’t English. English sucks on spelling. There’s letters all over the place that don’t get pronounced and isn’t consistently crazy. Sometimes you pronounce that letter, sometimes you don’t. It makes English spelling or reading hell to learn.